How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

Henry David Thoreau

I'm learning a lot about the culture of weight loss. I didn't know there were bloggers out there who were proud to be fat.

Mick Cornett

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Philip K. Dick

Vain ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.

John Webster, Vanitas Vanitatum

Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief

Honore de Balzac

The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.

Finley Peter Dunne

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

B. R. Ambedkar

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

Margaret Mead

I've seen women who don't have great relationships with their dads, and it all comes down to this: You have to tell girls you love them every day.

Chris Rock

Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling

Abraham Lincoln

We can only know one thing about God -- that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Simone Weil

I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry in movies, you know, just watching movies.

Antonio Banderas